Feb 16, 2015
Cambridge Judge Professor Visits and Speaks in Mumbai
Plenty of blame was cast for the financial crisis of 2007-2008, but finance education and training has hardly been blameless – this is the argument of Simon Taylor, University Lecturer in Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School.
A “standard set of finance concepts and tools” have been used to train people in the finance industry for decades, but many of those are based on very shaky foundations, Taylor told an audience in Mumbai on 28 January.
“We have to make students aware of what is known, but also how limited, fragmented and tentative that knowledge is,” Taylor says, urging that several elements should become standard fixtures in the education of financiers and others entering the investment industry.
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